I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I'm seeing a whole scene come to life.
I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, 'If I just had a camera, I could film different setups and make it look like I have way more Legos and tell a story.' I didn't get a camera, though, until I basically got an iPhone.
Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they're cool and funny. If they do, they're megalomaniacs.
I'm a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I'm going to change the world, but with comedy.
I auditioned for 'S.N.L.' two years before I got on the show. And I remember the first time thinking, 'I know for sure I'm not going to get this.' But I had this feeling that I would be back.
I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community.
I've had this problem my whole life where I feel like I'm laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don't see it. It's very confusing.
I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.
I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.
'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.
I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.
The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the parts for themselves.
